The Brain Drops Podcast

Season 2 - Episode Seventeen: "Manufactured Minds" With Elizabeth Leffall  

In this episode, our founder introduces Elizabeth Leffall, also known as The Unlikely Ambassador and founder of Fueled by Faith Enterprises.
Together, they explore faith, education, media influence, community, and the ways our beliefs are shaped by the people, institutions, and experiences around us. 
Through a thoughtful conversation about independent thinking, spiritual growth, and human connection, this episode examines what it means to navigate a rapidly changing world while remaining grounded in personal values and purpose.
This episode also marks the first in-person interview ever recorded for The Brain Drops Podcast since it first aired in 2020.

Fueled By Faith (FBF) Enterprises
The Unlikely Ambassador

Season 2 - Episode Sixteen: The Brain Drops: Perspective (Introduction)

In this episode, our founder introduces the next chapter of The Brain Drops Podcast, six years after its original launch. This episode sets the tone for a revamped series exploring attention, escapism, and meaning in the digital age, while offering a deeper look into the evolving vision of The Brain Drops Foundation.

Today our founder had a conversation with a Dayton Ohio based artist, Iden.
Iden is a mix media (multi-dimensional) artist and her work can be found by going to mynameisiden.com

Instagram: @my_name_is_iden
Facebook: facebook.com/mynameisiden


This episode concludes the first season of The Brain Drops Podcast. A new season is already in the works, with fresh conversations and a new format on the way.

In this episode, our founder has a conversation with a South Carolina based artist, Winnie Tataw. Winnie explains how her color-driven work explores emotions and texture.

Winnie's work can be found here:
@winsartistry
https://www.redbubble.com/people/winsartistry/shop

In this episode of The Brain Drops Podcast, founder Jeannie Tyrrell talks with Greg Little, editor of the Mariposa Gazette, about the role of music, storytelling, and her journey through journalism.

Originally aired on KRYZ 98.5 FM on September 15, 2022 (6 p.m. PT) and rebroadcast on September 19, 2022 (2 p.m. PT).

In this episode, our founder has a conversation with collage artist Ethan Riddle. He is a Pennsylvania based artist that constructs pieces of art that emulates something our founder described as a "Mind Terrarium".

His work was featured in the first issue of the Brain Drops Magazine, and it inspired the animation titled "Our Worlds".

https://braindropsbook.com/Brain-Drops-Magazine
https://youtube.com/shorts/nSRxRrwQHo8?feature=share


Ethan's work can be found here:

https://linktr.ee/ethanriddle88
@ethanriddle88
@themelonfactorymagazine

In this episode, our founder has a conversation with team member Jaina Cipriano. She is a Boston based photographer, production designer, and filmmaker that shared some insight about "World Building".

Her work explores the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment through immersive sets and emotional performances that mirror the subconscious.

Her production company, Finding Bright Productions, recently collaborated with Carissa Johnson, a Boston based musician. That work is discussed in this podcast as well.

https://www.carissajohnsonmusic.com/

New single “Wasting Dreams” out 8/12
Next show: 8/31 with TORRES and Sarah Jaffe @soniamideast

Jaina's work can be found here:

http://www.jainaciprianophotography.com/
@jainasphotography
@letlightfindyou

This episode was originally recorded for The AUDIOVISIO Podcast EPISODE #7 Jeannie Tyrrell - Dismantling Capitalism, The Disregard Complex, & Being A Voice for The Underdog.

@audiovisiopodcast

Adriana's IG:
@HadriaMecca
@WordsByHadria

You can find Jeannie online at:
@tyrrell_jeannie
@braindropsfoundation
@braindropsbooks
@braindropsmagazine
www.braindropsfoundation.org

Resources for community groups:

LGBTQIA+
www.translifeconference.org
www.posimages.org
www.translifeline.org
www.thetrevorproject.org

BIPOC Community
Love and Light (Movement for change)
https://gofund.me/d199be9b

In this episode, Adriana talks to Jeannie Tyrrell, the founder of Brain Drops Foundation, author and illustrator of her personal memoir titled "Brain Drops," host of the Brain Drops podcast, and now the founder of her newest project, Brain Drops magazine.

Jeannie is a passionate advocate for immediate change to our current Zeitgeist, who sees the compassion fatigue, the rampant escapism, the widespread dissociation, and the real consequences that such ignorance has on societies most vulnerable communities.

Inspired by her mother's association, geared to help women in domestic violence situations, a series of turbulent events cause Jeannie to turn pain into purpose with the birth of the Brain Drops Foundation.

Jeannie talks to us about her battle to break through to the other side of escapism, good and bad forms of escapism and how to streamline restless energy that comes from compassion fatigue. She also unveils to us her term, the "disregard complex," and how it runs as a central theme throughout the foundation, book and magazine.

We also discuss the cognitive dissonance of billionaires, and how slowly but surely Brain Drops is working towards dismantling capitalism as we know it.

If you enjoy Disney, don't listen to this podcast. You've been warned.

In this Podcast, our Brain Drops Team Member, Nate Mercier, has a conversation with Ron Lam. Ron is a retired police officer and he gives us his take on the growing #DISREGARDCOMPLEX. He shares his views on social media, communication, and his journey between being both a police officer and actor.

In this episode, Brain Drops Team member Nate Mercier brings back our founder for a conversation about what is currently happening specifically in the United States. Nate also unpacks the first chapter of our founder's book, and asks her questions about what she has written.

Our founder routinely takes a scary leap, and speaks out about the exploitation that goes along with toxic escapism. She doesn't hold back when she talks about the effect that it has on our society as a whole, because she believes that the #DISREGARDCOMPLEX needs to be addressed.